Ingulf and the Historia Croylandensis An Investigation Attempted by W.G. Searle, M.A., Late Fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge, and Late Vicar of Hockington, Cambridgeshire

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8vo. pp. viii, 216. Includes folded facsimile. One handwritten note referring to the Historia Croylandensis and one sheet with price and description of Searle’s book have been removed from the volume. These items are available in Manuscript 580 in the Special Collections Department at The Sheridan Libraries (Johns Hopkins University). The present work exposes the forgery of a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century chronicle of the Anglo-Saxon Abbott Ingulf (d. 1109), first printed in Sir Henry Savile’s Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Post Bedam (1596, Richard Crakanthorpe’s copy, Bib# 4102716/Fr# 156 in this collection). Searle provides a manuscript history and scholarly reception of the Ingulf chronicle and concludes that the work must have been composed between 1182 and 1450. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.